SWAT

The SWAT topic page gives tactical officers and cops who want to join the ranks of the elite special units in their departments wide variety of news, tips, columns, commentary, and articles to achieve the objective. The latest techniques being tested by leading edge departments and the tried-and-true tactics upon which the foundations of SWAT were built can be found here.

P1 Editor in Chief Doug Wylie interviews Ron LaPedis about the concept of a crisis box - materials and information gathered together (such as master key cards and building maps) that a law enforcement team can access when they arrive on site during a critical incident.

The FBI and the U.S. Marshals Service are among the agencies that have been given these radar systems, which work like finely tuned motion detectors, using radio waves to determine if someone is inside a home and whether they are moving.

From acts of terror to barricaded hostage situations and more, SWAT officers around the country are able to do their jobs because of countless hours of advanced weapons and tactics training. One crucial element to any SWAT operation: breaching.